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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. What happens is 18–20 firms access the data room and download all of your documents. Why you should never have a data room?—?the

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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They had a viral promotional technique that encouraged your friends to download their app to watch a video they posted and a channel (Facebook) that was trying to grow its video audience. Having a high position can make a huge difference to “organic” downloads. Startup Advice' Look at Viddy & SocialCast.

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Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code

TechCrunch

At the time, the massively popular left-pad package had raked in more than 15 million downloads , and even today the library continues to be downloaded millions of times weekly. It was entirely within his power to do, but it instantly created problems. Can any software they author, past or future, ever be trusted again?

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How Influencers Can Legally Raise Capital for Funds and Companies

David Teten VC

I practiced securities and transactional law at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Cooley before branching out and starting my own law firm, where I supported early stage startups and investors. Every VC has their own fund model which has to be supported by a service-driven fund administrator. Sydecar was born as a result.

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Inflection AI’s $1.3 Billion Funding Round Propels Personal AI Forward

American Entrepreneurship

This huge amount of funding supports Inflection’s ambitious goal of building a highly sophisticated large language model that enables people to engage with Pi as their personal assistant. Interactions occur in a simple and natural way that gives individuals fast and helpful information and advice. Instagram: follow @heypi.ai

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The Full Dataset on What VCs are Thinking About Funding in 2016

Both Sides of the Table

We also are dependent on money, advice and support of many of our friends & colleagues in the venture industry who co-invest with us in nearly every deal we do. It’s linked to here where you can download it or embedded below. VC survey data 2016 from Mark Suster.

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Column Tax announces $5.1M seed round to launch mobile tax-prep products

TechCrunch

Wealthy Americans have access to CPAs and accountants and tax advice people watching over their finances year-round. Before Atomic, it wouldn’t be possible to understand someone’s tax position mid-year without them downloading a pay stub and sending it to you via email,” Nachbar said.